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v J. LOCH. I SLOT PROTECTOR FOR MONEY SAFBS.

(No Model.)

No. 480,108. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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NITED STATES JOSEPH Loon, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SLQT- PROTECTO R FOR MON EY-SAEES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,108, dated August 2, 1892. Application filed April 7, 1892. Serial No. 428,172. (No model.)

To all whom at may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH LOOH, aeitizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and-State'ot New York,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Slot-Protectors for Money-Safes, of which f the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to efieetuallyprotect the coin-receiving slot in a moneyto box against all attempts to abstract a coin from the interior of the box as long'as the box is closed.-

The peculiar and novel construction of my protector is pointed out in the followingspecir 5 hcatlon and clainrand illustrated inthe accom panying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a money-box provided with my. protector when said box is placed in position to intro- 2 o duce a coin, the plane of section being indicated by the line a: ac, Fig.2. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section in the plane 1173 Fig; 1:

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in the plane .2 2,

Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa transverse vertical section 2.5 in the plane :1: as, Fig. 2, when the box is inverted. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section in the plane 2 2', Fig. 4. p I

I In the drawings, the letter -A designates a 'j money-box, which is provided with a lid 13,

- through which access can belh ad to the are,

- rior of the box. This lidiisclosed by means *of a. suitable lock-such, for instance, as thatdescribed in an application for patent filed October 8, 1891, Serial No.408,154-'s0' that the 5 lid can only be opened'bya-person provided with the proper key.

C is the coin-receiving slot, which may be formed in either of the sides of the box, and in the example illustrated in the drawings 40 said slot is formed in the top wall D opposite to that side which contains the lid 15. From w the inner surface of the top Wall Dclose to.

the ends of the\coin -receiving slot 0 project pendent lugs u a, which form the bearings for. two pins b I), and on each of these pins is mounted a series of gravitating fingers c ,c', respectively. As seen in Figs. 3 and 5, the 3 1 pins 1) I) run parallel with each other and with the edges of the coin-receiving slot, and the two series of fingers c c are placed in such by Letterslatent, is-

relation to each other that when the box is placed into'the position shown in Figs. 4. and 5 the fingers'c interlock with the fingers c and a guard is formed which effectually prevents the abstraction of any coin from the box as long'as the same is closed. In order to. effect this purpose, the inner end of each finger is made-heavier than its outer end and of sufficient length to extend between the fingers ofthe opposite series. do When the box is brought into the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the fingers c 0 turn down automatically to the position best seen in Fig. 2, so that they form noobstrnetionto theintroduetion of a coin throug'luthe comreceiving. slot G into the box A. The fingers c c are mounted intermediate their ends on the horizontal pins 11 7'), so that the fingers are formed at their outer ends with toe-pieces c c gwhich rest against the inside .of the top walliD when the box is in the up- "right position represented by Figs. 1, 2, and

3, thereby holding the long ends of the fingers in such position that they can only swing toward or past each other it the box is .inverted, whereas without the toe-pieces c bearing against the inside of the top wall- D the fingers c 0 would be liable to swing, away from each otherif the box were inverted, thus guard to the coin-slot.

"What I claim as new, and desire to secure The combination, with a toy money-box having'its top'wa-ll provided with a coin-slot and having on its inside a series of pendent lugs a, of the pins 11 I), carried by the lugs, and the sets of fingers c c, mounted intermediate their extremities on the pins and formed at their outer ends with the toe-pieces c",

whieh bearagainst the inside of the top'wall, when thelatter is uppermost, substantially as and-tor the purposes described. a -In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. n p f JOSEPH LOCi-I. Witnesses:

WM. o HAUF'F, -E. 1*.KASTENHITBER.

estroying the efficiency of the fingers as a. 80 

